Yeah, I know, there's everything from Side 3. I think that it is the absolute highlight of the album. Not a single bad song.

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I think about this a lot. As I've written before, it always comes down to which songs to trim off.

Over the weekend I was listening to the album again and thought I was glad it was released the way it was. That is because 44 years later, we would all now be clamoring for the unreleased stuff to be released anyway.

I'm looking at you, meanmistermustard!

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Zig said

Over the weekend I was listening to the album again and thought I was glad it was released the way it was.

I listened to it the last days in mono in the car, and apart from "Revolution" which I only heard once in completeness in my almost 40 year lifetime and can peacefully die without ever listening to it again, EVERY song has EVERY right to be there.

How can anyone consider this one out? Fantastic instrumental and vocal work. John was totally angry because he didn't take part in this, because this is a totally cool song.

All these songs make the White Album the stylistic tour de force it is, from the hardest hard rock (nothing the Who or the Stones ever did ever touched Helter Skelter) to the most heartfelt ballads (Julia, Blackbird, I will...) and everything between.

So if you feel obliged to butcher this masterful album by cutting away integral parts, feel free to do so.

Maybe you would even enjoy the Mona Lisa with the smile cut out.

But THEN put in the whole two disc set and enjoy the FULL ride!

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The Beatles were trying to exhaust their EMI contract, which means the more songs put out, the quicker the contract is satisfied.

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Zig said
I think about this a lot. As I've written before, it always comes down to which songs to trim off.

Over the weekend I was listening to the album again and thought I was glad it was released the way it was. That is because 44 years later, we would all now be clamoring for the unreleased stuff to be released anyway.

I'm looking at you, meanmistermustard!

And we would be making do with some crappy piece of tat that nobody wants whilst Apple sit on their backsides staring at the blingingly obvious wondering what other pieces of tat they can put out at full price. (That was a deliberate made to order rant.)

And talking of the White Album where the heck are the demos the beatles tried out in May 1968? We know fine well they have excellent quality tapes of the songs in the vaults (see Anthology 3) and we know full well that the songs are excellent acoustic performances from the bootlegs with many of the songs with many differences to the commercially released versions. Sorry i forgot i can get a White Album table mat and bib so no need.

11. Long Long Long -- brooding and dark, very underrated Harrison song, leads up to a haunting conclusion

12. Revolution 1 -- much better than the amped up version, and the cacaphony of sounds at the end is wonderful

13. Cry Baby Cry -- I love the melancholy composition; seems like the most "white" track on the White Album the more you think about it

14. Revolution 9 -- you need that for that extra WTF thrown in--and I do appreciate the avant-garde approach, unlike many

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I CAN'T DO IT!!! There are too many good songs on this album. I know that George Martin wanted it to be released as a single disc, but one of the good things about the album is the large amount of material it contains. I always discover something new whenever I listen to it!

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I always think this is an interesting question, but maybe in a different to many of you. A disc in the 60s was around forty-fifty minutes. A disc in the 80s (with the change to CD) became 79+. That creates a whole different idea for a single disc White Album (needing to only lose 2 or 3 songs depending on your picks). I'll admit I could not do a single vinyl disc edit of the White Album. I could just about come up with a single CD. What I could excel on though would be a 158-ish double CD, pulling in those tracks lost in action. It's like I've always thought, related because the same sessions, the 7-inch Hey Jude would not have existed as it does ten years later, as 12-inches were beginning to appear. We would have had three-four minutes on the 7-inch, and the full version on the 12-inch. The available format at the time, with its restrictions and freedoms, gives us the music in the way we are used to hearing it. At least The Beatles filled the available vinyl, unlike say Dylan (who I love - but on Blonde on Blonde gave us an 11 minute side to a double vinyl).

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Firstly your first album has two side twos, would be a great headscratcher of which side to play first.

Secondly your two albums have 27 tracks including songs that werent included eg Junk and Sour Milk Sea, would you make a third album? Was there a triple album before, this might well have been the first.

Edit: Had that stupid compatabilty View nonsense on. Stupid option.

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meanmistermustard said
Oh my computer is playing up.

Beatles in the Blood said
BUT think about this waht if it had been one disc and they used the left over material to make another album in 1968.

Firstly your first album has two side twos, would be a great headscratcher of which side to play first.

Secondly your two albums have 27 tracks including songs that werent included eg Junk and Sour Milk Sea, would you make a third album? Was there a triple album before, this might well have been the first.

Edit: Had that stupid compatabilty View nonsense on. Stupid option.

The two side two's was a typo, not sure what I was thinking.

I'm not sure what you are saying at the second thing could you inlighten me?

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thewordislove94 said
I CAN'T DO IT!!! There are too many good songs on this album. I know that George Martin wanted it to be released as a single disc, but one of the good things about the album is the large amount of material it contains. I always discover something new whenever I listen to it!

I can't do it either. One of the great things about it is being a DOUBLE album and so much great material. I just can't imagine it any other way.

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